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2004-0728 - The Press - Group
seeks help from Chch MP
New
March 2 2005
by Jarrod Booker - A group wanting action against a former Christchurch
doctor accused of misdiagnosing sex abuse has sought help from Christchurch
Central MP Tim Barnett. Barnett is chairman of the Justice and Electoral
select committee which is considering a petition calling for a Royal
Commission of Inquiry into Christchurch Creche case. Pain (Parents Against
Injustice) said yesterday it was working with Barnett to pursue its claims against
Dr Dianne Espie over her diagnosis of young girls at Christchurch's Glenelg
Health Camp in the 1980s
2004-0618 - The Press -
Labour Govt knew about sex claims
by Colin Espiner - Child, Youth and Family Minister
Ruth Dyson has admitted a former Labour government was aware of sex abuse
allegations at the Glenelg Health Camp in the late 1980s. But Dyson has all
but ruled out a ministerial inquiry into the claims, saying nothing she has
seen would justify a re-examination of the issue. Documents tabled in Parliament
yesterday show both the Lange-Palmer Labour government and the Bolger
National administration investigated claims by parents that they had been
falsely accused of sexual abuse by a doctor at the camp.
2004-0617 - Nelson Mail - Dyson
denies allegations of cover-up over abuse claims
Child Youth and Family Minister Ruth Dyson has been
accused of ``being economical with the truth'' to protect the Prime Minister
and Deputy Prime Minister over sex abuse allegations at the Glenelg Health
Camp in the late 1980s. National MP Katherine Rich yesterday accused Ms Dyson
of ``covering up'' the pair's involvement in the handling of the first
complaints of sexual abuse from the Christchurch
camp.
2004-0617 - National
Party - Dyson: "I have checked the file" - yeah right
by Katherine Rich - National MP Katherine Rich is pleased that Labour
ministers seem to have recovered their memories about Labour's involvement in
the Glenelg Health Camp complaints in 1989. "For four months Ruth Dyson
has been unable to find any information prior to 1993 about the complaints.
Since May 17, she has said that officials were checking the archives.
"But now, only 24 hours after I accused Ms Dyson of covering-up the
involvement of previous Labour cabinet ministers and she blamed National for
not dealing with the Glenelg complaints, memories have been jolted and
information has miraculously appeared.
2004-0617 - Newstalk ZB - Gov't
denies coverup
National and ACT believe the Government is trying to
cover up how the last Labour Government dealt with allegations involving
Glenelg Health Camp. National's Katherine Rich says the Government sat on its
hands after it received a complaint about sexual abuse at the camp.
2004-0617 - NZ Parliament -
Questions for Oral Answer
Katherine Rich to the Associate Minister for Social
Development and Employment (CYF): Does she stand by her earlier statements
that she had “checked the file” and conducted “extensive searching of the
available records” in relation to complaints about medical examinations at
the Glenelg Health Camp prior to answering oral and written questions about
the role of the ministry and the Minister; if so, does she stand by her
answers to those questions?
2004-0617 - The Press -
Glenelg cover-up alleged
By Anna Claridge - Child, Youth and Family (CYF)
Minister Ruth Dyson has been accused of "being economical with the
truth" to protect the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister over sex
abuse allegations at the Glenelg Health Camp in the late 1980s. Yesterday,
National MP Katherine Rich accused Dyson of "covering up" the
pair's involvement in the handling of the first complaints of sexual abuse
from the Christchurch
camp.
2004-0522 - The Press - Abuse
claims untrue - doctor
by Jarrod Booker - A former Christchurch
doctor accused of tearing apart families with misdiagnosis of sexual abuse
says the claims have taken a heavy toll on her. Dr Dianne Espie, who
identified symptoms of sexual abuse in girls at Christchurch's Glenelg Health
Camp from the late 1980s, has been accused of using methods "that can
only be described as sexual abuse" by ACT MP Deborah Coddington
2004-0521 - The Press - Shipley
told no need for inquiry into camp
Associate Health Minister Ruth Dyson yesterday said she was unsure why a case
had never been pursued by the Medical Council over legations of sexual abuse,
at Glenelg Health Camp in Christchurch. The alleged abuse was again the
subject of questions in Parliament yesterday after ACT MP Deborah Coddington
last week claimed young girls were sexually Abused at the health camp by a
woman medical officer who then accused their fathers of the offences
2004-0520 - NZ Parliament -
Questions for Oral Answer
Katherine Rich to the Associate Minister for Social Development and
Employment (CYF): When did the former Department of Social Welfare and its
Minister first become aware of allegations regarding the medical examinations
of children, without parental consent, at Glenelg Health Camp?
2004-0520 - The Press -
False abuse claim robs woman of dying dad
by Jarrod Booker - Katrina Meaclem missed out on precious time with her dying
father because of false sexual abuse allegations. Sixteen years after her
father's death, Meaclem, 29, cannot forgive Dr Diane Espie, who examined her
and added considerable weight to existing claims that she had been abused by
her father. Without the diagnosis by Espie when she was 12, Meaclem believes
she may have been allowed to return to live with her parents.
2004-0514 - The Press - Father
seeks apology over sexual abuse allegations
A Christchurch
father whose family was torn apart by sexual abuse allegations from a
controversial health worker still hopes for an admission he was wronged. Trevor
Gibling says he lost custody of his daughter Carolynne after being accused of
sexually abusing her by the female health officer. The doctor examined and
interviewed the girl at Christchurch's
Glenelg Health Camp in 1987. ACT MP Deborah Coddington, in Parliament this
week, claimed the doctor herself had "repeatedly examined these little
girls in a way that can only be described as sexual abuse". As a result
of allegations the doctor made against parents, three girls – including
Carolynne Gibling – were taken from their homes and put into state custody.
Coddington is now calling for an inquiry into the "dreadful
scandal".
2004-0513 - NZ Parliament -
Questions for Oral Answer
Deborah Coddington to the Minister of Health: Why didn't she order an
immediate independent inquiry into the alleged abuse of children at the
Glenelg Children's Health Camp in the 1980s following the briefing on 28
October 2003 that her officials provided for her as a result of my written
questions?
2004-0513 - NZ Herald - Sex abuse
at health camp claims MP
NZPA - Young girls were sexually abused at Glenelg Health Camp in Christchurch by a woman
health officer who accused their fathers of sexual abuse, it was alleged in
Parliament yesterday. Act MP Deborah Coddington said families were destroyed
by those accusations while successive Governments ignored a "dreadful
scandal".
2004-0513 - The Press - MP names
doctor accused of health-camp abuse
NZPA - ACT MP Deborah Coddington said families were destroyed by those
accusations while successive governments ignored a "dreadful
scandal". She said that in 1987 three girls went to the health camp and
were put in the care of the state. "A state employee sexually abused
these little girls and no government has ever done anything except sweep this
scandal under the carpet," she said. Speaking under parliamentary
privilege, Coddington named then officer of health Dr Diane Espie as the
woman involved.
2004-0512 - Stuff - MP accuses woman
doctor of abusing young girls
NZPA - Young girls were sexually abused at Glenelg Health Camp in Christchurch by a woman
health officer who then accused their fathers of the offences, it was alleged
in Parliament today. ACT MP Deborah Coddington said families were destroyed
by those accusations while successive governments ignored a "dreadful
scandal". She said that in 1987 three girls went to the health camp and
were put in the care of the state. "A state employee sexually abused
these little girls and no government has ever done anything except sweep this
scandal under the carpet," she said.
2004-0512 - NZ
Parliament Coddington Speech
(Transcript) by Deborah Coddington - Mr Speaker, what I'm about to say is
going to shock this house. And every member should feel shamed of what has
happened here. This Government and the last government has ignored a dreadful
scandal. In 1987 Mr Speaker, three little girls went to the Glenelg Health
Camp in Christchurch.
They were put in the care of the State. Their parents trusted their children
in the care of the State. A State employee sexually abused these little girls
and no government has ever done anything except sweep this scandal under the
carpet
2003-0725
- National Business Review - Changing times or changing gender
Ms Hood reminds us that at the same time (1987) Dr Dianne Espie, of
Christchurch's Child Protection Team, was examining young children entering a
children's health camp for signs of sexual abuse. In 1988 she reported that
"of the more than 250 children who had passed through the camp the
previous year 117 had probably been sexually abused, one probably had not
been and the rest were in doubt". If you can believe that you can
believe anything. Far too many did. Dr Espie examined these health camp
children, without parental consent, and for no good reason other than her
evident conviction that all men were child abusers.
2001-1001 -
Lynley Hood - A City Possessed Extract p127-140
After six years in general practice, Dr Dianne Espie was appointed medical
officer of health responsible for Glenelg Children's Health Camp in 1981. She
had no post-graduate qualifications in paediatrics, psychiatry or gynaecology,
but during the '80s she attended many seminars on child abuse and
counselling, and thereby became a child sexual abuse expert. By 1985 she was
diagnosing increasing numbers of sexual abuse cases in the course of her work
1999-0330
- Dominion - Tracing the evolution of a satanic scare
by Alan Samson - Among other figures central to what he classifies as the
early hysteria, Professor Hill identifies David Finkelhor, who published
three dozen ritual abuse case studies, without evaluating the reliability of
any of the allegations. More important
to New Zealand
was doctor Astrid Heger, one of the McMartin investigators, who wrote that
sexual abuse could be detected by the size and shape of girls' hymens. This
was taken as an abuse indicator at a Glenelg Health Camp investigation in Christchurch, a related anal dilation test - supposed to
indicate molestation - triggered a sexual abuse scare in Cleveland, Britain.
1997-1123
- Sunday Star Times - Full inquiry essential in Ellis case
by Frank Haden - A proper inquiry into all aspects of
the case, not just the part played by a naive and foolish policeman, will put
an end forever to the baleful, destructive power of the Christchurch
psychologists and welfare workers who were denied a victim in the Glenelg
Health Camp case, denied a victim in the hospital children's ward case, and
moved in frustration against Peter Ellis, determined to get a sacrificial
goat by hook or by crook. They must be "disempowered" to use their
jargon, along with the ritual garbage they spout, miscalling allegations
"disclosures" and admissions of having lied "being in denial
1995-0500 - COSA - Newsletter
Review of "Assignment, Rob Harley, TV1, 28 April 1995" - This
documentary presented the stories of 3 families whose daughters attended
Gleneg Health Clinic, Christchurch, in 1987, when they were about 8 years
old. There had never been any suggestion that any of these girls had been
sexually abused. All 3 were examined by the Camp doctor, Diane Espie,
apparently without parental consent. She found that they had what she
interpreted as enlarged vaginal openings and told them they had been sexually
abused. Then followed interviews to reveal the offender.
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